Parce que, si cette nouvelle:

"GROAN! LIGHT IS REPORTED TO TRAVEL FASTER THAN LIGHT.
The real news in physics was that the tau neutrino, the last of the fermions predicted by the Standard Model, had been discovered at Fermilab. But front page headlines across the country were proclaiming, "The Speed of Light Has Been Broken." It's now going to be impossible to characterize any claim as physically impossible without people scoffing: "that's what they said about the speed of light." At WN, we're already getting triumphant phone calls and e-mails from Einstein deniers. Charles Bennett at IBM Watson points out that this is little more than a confused rehash of an old story, where the peak of the wave packet leaving the "superluminal" medium is causally related to just the leading edge of the wave packet entering the medium. "Rolf Landauer is dead," Bennett sighed, "and someone needs to complain for him." (Bob Park, membre de l'American Physical Society, sur le site What's New, édition du 21/07/2000, http://www.aps.org/WN/ )

Si cette nouvelle, donc, est vraie, ça va déchaîner tous les Gatti de la terre... et en route vers de nouvelles élucubrations.

Jean-François

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